Biathlon IBU Junior & Youth World Championships 2021

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Surprising gold for Germany, considering that it wasn’t Riethmüller who won it. Sadly Riethmüller seems to have regressed, which probably means that he won’t be the savior for German men’s biathlon. Germany now has won 3 of the last 4 men’s individual races at junior level, which shows that results at this level shouldn’t be overestimated.

 

I think at this age level the best talents (apart from Giacomel (Italy, 2000), Bionaz (Italy, 2000) and Andersen (Norway, 1999)) are Cisar (Slovenia, 2000), Claude (France, 1999) and Perrot (France, 2001).

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1 hour ago, OlympicsFan said:

Surprising gold for Germany, considering that it wasn’t Riethmüller who won it. Sadly Riethmüller seems to have regressed, which probably means that he won’t be the savior for German men’s biathlon. Germany now has won 3 of the last 4 men’s individual races at junior level, which shows that results at this level shouldn’t be overestimated.

 

I think at this age level the best talents (apart from Giacomel (Italy, 2000), Bionaz (Italy, 2000) and Andersen (Norway, 1999)) are Cisar (Slovenia, 2000), Claude (France, 1999) and Perrot (France, 2001).

Great performance from Lipowitz today . Riehtmueller looked good on skis, but to many misses for a medal.

The Rest of the German team, especially in the Youth Category, looked not that well.

But in the sprints everything could be really different ...

 

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57 minutes ago, JonPhi said:

Great performance from Lipowitz today . Riehtmueller looked good on skis, but to many misses for a medal.

The Rest of the German team, especially in the Youth Category, looked not that well.

But in the sprints everything could be really different ...

 

Interesting take. Riethmüller doesn’t seem to have improved in skiing from last year, which is a bad sign. Today multiple younger guys (Zingerle, Perrot) had better skiing times than him. Also at the youth level there was a german guy who finished 5th (and would have won gold with one less miss), much better than Riethmüller. On the women’s side Grotian had a top 5 skiing time despite being 2 years younger than many of her competitors.

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Congrats to todays winners:

Youth Women Sprint:

Repinc - 

Zingerle - 

Grotian - 

 

6 shot clean, with all 60 who qualified for the Pursuit within in 3:16 of each other.

 

For the Youth Men Sprint:

Irodov - 

Piller Cottrer - 

Gunka - 

 

Only three shot clean.  With 2:57 between the 1st and 60th.  The US managed to get all 4 in the Pursuit.  That was a surprise to me.  Campbell Wright missed 5 targets and still came in 29th, 1:54 behind.  

 

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56 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

Congrats to todays winners:

Youth Women Sprint:

Repinc - 

Zingerle - 

Grotian - 

 

6 shot clean, with all 60 who qualified for the Pursuit within in 3:16 of each other.

 

For the Youth Men Sprint:

Irodov - 

Piller Cottrer - 

Gunka - 

 

Only three shot clean.  With 2:57 between the 1st and 60th.  The US managed to get all 4 in the Pursuit.  That was a surprise to me.  Campbell Wright missed 5 targets and still came in 29th, 1:54 behind.  

 

Already 8 different nations with medals (6 of those already with multiple medals). Norway and Sweden still without medal, so we should definitely get to 10 different nations winning at least one medal. Very impressive race again by Irodov, maybe he can be the first? athlete to win all individual golds. Slovenia has both top end talents (Repinc, Cisar) and good depth, they could definitely finish top 3 in medal table.
 

Maybe someone from Italy knows if Piller Cottrer is related to the former cross country skier?

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3 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

Already 8 different nations with medals (6 of those already with multiple medals). Norway and Sweden still without medal, so we should definitely get to 10 different nations winning at least one medal. Very impressive race again by Irodov, maybe he can be the first? athlete to win all individual golds. Slovenia has both top end talents (Repinc, Cisar) and good depth, they could definitely finish top 3 in medal table.
 

Maybe someone from Italy knows if Piller Cottrer is related to the former cross country skier?

Yes, he's his son

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Women’s junior sprint:

Gold for Baserga  (0 misses)

Silver for Passler  (1 miss)

Bronze for Arnekleiv  (1 miss)

 

Goreeva (3 misses) from Russia with superior skiing speed, would have won gold with 1 miss.

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Switzerland's first medal at junior world champs ,a gold. So 10 nations medalled till now! 

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May sound harsh, but the German women should all retire as soon as possible. They are so far away when it comes to skiing speed that there is absolutely no hope for them at senior level. I don’t know what the german Coaches do professionally, but they definitely shouldn’t be paid for coaching. I am completely shocked how it is possible that every single athlete is that horrible in cross-country skiing. I doubt that they would be any slower if their coaches would actively try to sabotage them (which already might be the case). Compared to them Janina Hettich looks like a transcendental talent in cross-country skiing.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Super excited for Beserga.  Slettlemark did not start.  Too bad, that was the last solid chance for Greenland to get a medal.  Her brother will start 1:42 back in the pursuit. It would take something really special for that to happen.  So my guess of Greenland will not happen.